Software Development Engineer III, Telemetry

Mapbox Inc.; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Health care support

Parental leave

Job summary

A leading real-time location platform is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to join their new Telemetry team. The candidate will work on critical services and data pipelines, contributing to navigation and mapping products. With 8+ years of experience in scalable backend services and strong knowledge of data handling pipelines, the role emphasizes collaboration, problem-solving, and operational excellence. This position supports remote work, encouraging applications from diverse backgrounds.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services.
• 3+ years of experience building streaming pipelines handling petabytes of data.
• Eagerness to learn various test stacks and languages, including Python and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to complete well-defined tasks.
• Deliver projects on time and with quality.
• Design systems that support rapid growth.

Skills

Backend services development

Data pipeline handling

Python

NodeJS

AWS technologies

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What We Do

It is an exciting time to join Mapbox as we build a brand-new Telemetry team from the ground up to power the next generation of navigation, maps, and search products at a global scale. This newly formed team will design, develop, and operate mission‑critical services and high‑throughput streaming data pipelines that process petabytes of device information and geospatial data. These systems will provide company‑wide observability, performance metrics, and actionable insights that directly inform how we can improve all our foundational Mapbox products such as Navigation SDK, Maps SDK, and data products such as Traffic, Movement, Boundaries, and Roads. This Telemetry team will sit at the core of Mapbox’s strategic initiatives across consumer, automotive, and logistics use cases, directly shaping how millions of people and businesses move through the world.

As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision‑making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.

What You’ll Do

We are seeking a highly innovative and driven Software Development Engineer III who will partner with Engineering Leaders across the company to develop and execute the vision of our new Telemetry team. This team and initiative will have company‑wide scope and impact requiring strong collaboration, communication, and execution skills.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Collaborate with your team to identify and scope out well‑defined tasks.

• Execute on the scope and be accountable for delivering on time with quality.

• Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base.

• Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on‑call to support the health of our services.

• Reduce technical debt, share your knowledge, and invest in your teammates’ health and happiness, while optimizing application performance and accelerating feature velocity.

• Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data‑driven decisions.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 8+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services

• 3+ years of experience building pipelines (streaming) capable of handling petabytes worth of data

• Eagerness to learn and become proficient with many different test stacks and languages – Python, NodeJS, TypeScript, Rust, C++, and AWS (CDK, ECS, Fargate, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, etc.)

• Knowledge and experience handling global data security standards

• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub

• Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives

• Able to perform independently all the development tasks, based on designs and specs.

• Self‑starter who is communication and outcomes‑oriented

• An empirical analytical approach. You develop strong hypotheses, conduct spikes, and clearly communicate your findings

• A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing and both written and verbal discussion

• A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences

• High quality mindset -- write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high‑performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.

• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.

• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.

• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have received the Mapbox Non‑US Privacy Notice for applicants, which is linked here. Completing this application requires you to provide personal data, such as your name and contact information, which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application.

We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

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